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- Khronos Group updates OpenGL and OpenCL graphics standards
- Vodafone Oz serving ice cream sandwiches by the Galaxy
- Qualcomm taps former Intel mobile maven as CMO
- AMD borrows $300m to fill war chest
- Alteryx does Big Data integration for dummies
- Curiosity snapped mid-flight by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
- Woz: Cloud computing trend is 'horrendous'
- Bargain-hunting Chinese make life tough for iOS devs
- MetroPCS waves wand, turns Samsung Galaxy mobe into a TV
- TSMC doles out $1.4bn to buy Moore's Law breathing space
- EMC hooks up with Lenovo, tries to penetrate China
- Nimble Storage clusters up for scale-to-fit flash-in-a-can
- France's biggest Apple reseller shuts up shop
- Wikipedia collapses threatening the very fabric of civilisation
- Radio hams unite to fight off new powerline comms standard
- Scribe's mobe, MacBook pwned after hacker 'fast-talked Apple support'
- Vodafone loses access to punters' records in IT cock-up
- EMC: We're turning VMAX into mainframe tape KILLER
- IT job creation bucks up US economy
- Console content can cause crime, claims cop
- Google Street View spymobile crashes spectacularly
- Foxconn big daddy's latest fear: An expensive Sharp stake
- Google silences podcast app Listen, disbands Team tool
- Acer Iconia Tab A510 10in Android review
- For flock's sake: Scared sheep send SMSes to Swiss shepherds
- Microsoft UK bigwig leaps into bed with Bucks biz
- Rampant fake Facebook ad clicks riddle hits dead end
- Euro NCAP to mandate auto-braking in new-car test
- Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei outs his supreme-self as arty hipster
- Curiosity success 'paves way for Man on Mars by 2030s'
- Amazon: e-book purchases push past paper
- Samsung lengthens Note phone-cum-tablet to 10 inches
- God-botherers burst onto IPTV Freeview: The End is Nigh
- NHS trust: Not buying through NHS IT saved us £7m
- Boffins: We are VAPORISING the Earth... for science
- If Ultrabooks lasted longer, would YOU open your wallet?
- Watchdog sets rules on ad-slinging in vid-streaming services
- What's the point of a cloud storage gateway?
- Success! Curiosity Mars lander arrives precisely on schedule
- Xiaomi to go quad core with iPhone challenger
- Baidu bods arrested after deleting posts for dosh
- Curiosity landing live from NASA's JPL: How the drama unfolded
- Qantas' website goes all-but-titsup for an hour
- Climate change behind extreme weather, says NASA
- The Curiosity Show - Mars rover touches down at 5:31 GMT
- Oz regulator tells telly-makers to mind their language
- DARPA chips in on Terahertz research
| Khronos Group updates OpenGL and OpenCL graphics standards Posted: 06 Aug 2012 02:28 PM PDT 20 years of the graphics standardThe Khronos Group has released the latest version of its OpenGL graphics standard, 20 years after SGI first opened up the code.… |
| Vodafone Oz serving ice cream sandwiches by the Galaxy Posted: 06 Aug 2012 02:00 PM PDT Still no Jelly Beans on the menu as Samsung "preparing update"Vodafone Australia will soon start to serve Ice Cream Sandwiches, Android-style, to owners of Samsung GALAXY Note handsets.… |
| Qualcomm taps former Intel mobile maven as CMO Posted: 06 Aug 2012 01:59 PM PDT If you can't beat ARM, join ARMAnand Chandrasekher, the man who was responsible for many of Intel's low-power mobile chip initiatives, has joined Qualcomm as its new chief marketing officer.… |
| AMD borrows $300m to fill war chest Posted: 06 Aug 2012 01:12 PM PDT Time to buy Calxeda or Applied MicroAdvanced Micro Devices is wading into the debt markets to raise money for a whole bunch of things it needs to get done.… |
| Alteryx does Big Data integration for dummies Posted: 06 Aug 2012 12:36 PM PDT Everyone wants to be a 'data artisan'The real challenge of Big Data is not storing and chewing your clickstreams and other operational data to get the right product in front of the right person. That's easy. But taking multiple data sources from your own systems and outside sources, mashing them up, and then spitting them out as information that some person or program can actually use to make decisions: that's tough. With its Strategic Analytics 7.1, Alteryx thinks it has a palette upon which analysts can mix data sources and run analytics – in much the same way as an artist paints a landscape.… |
| Curiosity snapped mid-flight by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Posted: 06 Aug 2012 12:33 PM PDT Rover reports as ready for dutyCuriosity Mars mission NASA has released the first photo of the Curiosity rover in flight, after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's (MRO) HiRISE camera snapped a shot of the spacecraft parachuting down to the Martian surface.… |
| Woz: Cloud computing trend is 'horrendous' Posted: 06 Aug 2012 12:02 PM PDT Beardy Apple wildman voices fears while treading the boardsThe risks of cloud computing will be "horrendous", Steve Wozniak said last night, in a statement that will set eyeballs rolling at Apple - the company he co-founded with Steve Jobs.… |
| Bargain-hunting Chinese make life tough for iOS devs Posted: 06 Aug 2012 11:30 AM PDT App Store generates just THREE PER CENT of global revenueApple iOS developers in China are struggling to make a living from the platform, with App Store revenues in the region accounting for just three per cent of the global total, despite scooping 18 per cent of worldwide downloads.… |
| MetroPCS waves wand, turns Samsung Galaxy mobe into a TV Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:14 AM PDT Turn on, tune in, pray for no signal drop outsCell phone operator MetroPCS has unveiled a Samsung Galaxy variant capable of receiving Dyle TV. The cheapo network seems undeterred by other companies' inability to successfully broadcast television to mobile phones.… |
| TSMC doles out $1.4bn to buy Moore's Law breathing space Posted: 06 Aug 2012 09:04 AM PDT Intel already in bed with chip etchers ASML, Samsung next?The Dutch maker of the lithography equipment used to etch the world's chips has been going cap in hand to its largest customers.… |
| EMC hooks up with Lenovo, tries to penetrate China Posted: 06 Aug 2012 08:29 AM PDT Server-storage bundles allianceThe head mandarin of storage firm EMC, Joe Tucci, has signed a strategic partnership with computer-maker Lenovo involving China penetration, Lenovo replacing Dell in EMC's affections, SMB filers and – word has it – servers.… |
| Nimble Storage clusters up for scale-to-fit flash-in-a-can Posted: 06 Aug 2012 08:03 AM PDT Big as you like... with boosted controllerHybrid iSCSI storage array start-up Nimble Storage has added a new controller, clustering and expansion shelves to enable scaling of performance and capacity separately or together.… |
| France's biggest Apple reseller shuts up shop Posted: 06 Aug 2012 07:39 AM PDT Pending court cases are all that's left of 30-year-old businessLawsuits are all that remain of France's biggest Apple reseller after no credible bidders came forward to save the business. eBizcuss officially went into liquidation on 31 July, after 36 years of trading.… |
| Wikipedia collapses threatening the very fabric of civilisation Posted: 06 Aug 2012 07:23 AM PDT Quick, to the LIBRAR- oh wait, I think it's back upUpdated Fount-of-dubious-knowledge Wikipedia has gone down around the world, prompting a Twitter frenzy from people struggling to remember how to open books.… |
| Radio hams unite to fight off new powerline comms standard Posted: 06 Aug 2012 07:03 AM PDT If you tolerate this, your ADSL will be nextThe Radio Society of Great Britain is mobilising Europe's radio hams in protest against the forthcoming standard for powerline networking, predicting dire consequences if existing standards aren't applied.… |
| Scribe's mobe, MacBook pwned after hacker 'fast-talked Apple support' Posted: 06 Aug 2012 06:29 AM PDT iCloud burst in social engineering attack claimTech journo Mat Honan has told how he helplessly watched a hacker remotely erase and lock his iPhone, iPad and MacBook after his iCloud account was hijacked. It's a cautionary tale against relying too heavily on one cloud platform.… |
| Vodafone loses access to punters' records in IT cock-up Posted: 06 Aug 2012 05:56 AM PDT Billing system refused to get out of bed this morningVodafone is investigating a glitch with its billing system that left its workers unable to access UK customer accounts today.… |
| EMC: We're turning VMAX into mainframe tape KILLER Posted: 06 Aug 2012 05:39 AM PDT Who needs physical when you can have virtual?EMC has turned its VMAX array into a mainframe virtual tape library – the DLm8000, with synchronous replication – in a move that could see tapes banished from mainframe operations.… |
| IT job creation bucks up US economy Posted: 06 Aug 2012 05:23 AM PDT Other sectors slackingThe US economy added more jobs than economists had been expecting in July, according to a report released Friday from the Department of Labor, and the IT sector did its part to push up the numbers once again as it has since the beginning of the Great Recession five years ago.… |
| Console content can cause crime, claims cop Posted: 06 Aug 2012 05:08 AM PDT Blame game played down underAustralian police have pointed the finger at Grand Theft Auto and other games of its kind for an alleged increase in the acceptance of violence in the country.… |
| Google Street View spymobile crashes spectacularly Posted: 06 Aug 2012 05:02 AM PDT Have you tried turning it off and.. oh, forget itVid A brief vid has popped up on YouTube purportedly showing a pranged Street View spymobile in northern India.… |
| Foxconn big daddy's latest fear: An expensive Sharp stake Posted: 06 Aug 2012 04:40 AM PDT Hon Hai bares fangs at monitor biz as pulse fadesShares of beleaguered electronics firm Sharp continued to fall today as Foxconn parent Hon Hai said it was still taking the agreed stake in the firm, but it wanted a lower price.… |
| Google silences podcast app Listen, disbands Team tool Posted: 06 Aug 2012 04:25 AM PDT Web giant chucks more of its stuff overboardGoogle has announced another cull of services it reckons won't be missed, including Google Listen.… |
| Acer Iconia Tab A510 10in Android review Posted: 06 Aug 2012 04:13 AM PDT Quad-core cost-cutterIn my view, the 16GB Google Nexus 7 is pretty much the ideal Android tablet, but if that form factor is too small for you, then you might be interested in what Acer has cooked up lately. Say hello then to the Iconia Tab A510. Targeted at those who want a quad-core machine, it offers a 10.1in screen, 32GB of storage and for a reasonable price – around £320 if you look hard enough.… |
| For flock's sake: Scared sheep send SMSes to Swiss shepherds Posted: 06 Aug 2012 04:04 AM PDT Da big bad wolf S cmng ovr hillSwiss boffins have been testing SMS-equipped sheep to see if they can send a warning text message when the big, bad wolf approaches, and it looks like they can.… |
| Microsoft UK bigwig leaps into bed with Bucks biz Posted: 06 Aug 2012 03:42 AM PDT Services boss is making his mind up: he's off to SoftcatSoftware and services supplier Softcat is bringing Microsoft UK services boss Colin Brown on board as deputy MD, The Channel can reveal.… |
| Rampant fake Facebook ad clicks riddle hits dead end Posted: 06 Aug 2012 03:18 AM PDT Are you bot or not?Analysis After a startup claimed that 80 per cent of clicks on its ads in Facebook were bogus, sales of pitchforks and burning torches went through the roof as pundits circled in search of a scandal. However, the figures in the case lead to an unexpected dead end rather than to a smoking gun of unimaginable fraud.… |
| Euro NCAP to mandate auto-braking in new-car test Posted: 06 Aug 2012 03:10 AM PDT From 2014, car must brake if driver doesn'tEuro NCAP, the European car safety organisation, is to insist that, from 2014 onwards, all vehicles seeking its approval must be able to hit the anchors without driver intervention.… |
| Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei outs his supreme-self as arty hipster Posted: 06 Aug 2012 02:57 AM PDT Instagram photo-bloggers get an unlikely new friendIran's Supreme Leader of 23 years, "divine" boss of the country's military, judiciary, and state broadcasting services, has joined hipster cupcake-pic site Instagram and posted four photos.… |
| Curiosity success 'paves way for Man on Mars by 2030s' Posted: 06 Aug 2012 02:27 AM PDT We've sent a laser-armed nuke tank, next we'll send the boffinsCuriosity Mars mission The landing of a "one ton automobile-sized piece of America" also known as the Curiosity rover on Mars today could clear the way for Man's arrival within the next 20 years.… |
| Amazon: e-book purchases push past paper Posted: 06 Aug 2012 02:25 AM PDT Folk favour electronic convenience in the convenienceAmazon.com's UK wing claims its British customers are now buying more e-books than printed-on-paper editions.… |
| Samsung lengthens Note phone-cum-tablet to 10 inches Posted: 06 Aug 2012 02:02 AM PDT Pen is mightier than the fingerSamsung's pumped up Galaxy Note phone will be inflated to full tablet size this month as the Galaxy Note 10.1.… |
| God-botherers burst onto IPTV Freeview: The End is Nigh Posted: 06 Aug 2012 01:58 AM PDT Teapot Makeover, another sign of the coming crapocalypseFreeview HD, the UK's broadcast platform of default, now has a selection of god channels to accompany the nationalistic broadcasters, as the move towards narrowcast TV continues despite its inevitable destination.… |
| NHS trust: Not buying through NHS IT saved us £7m Posted: 06 Aug 2012 01:44 AM PDT Patient record database bargainA direct tender has enabled Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS foundation trust to purchase a patient records system at a cost more than £7m below the price paid by the Department of Health (DH).… |
| Boffins: We are VAPORISING the Earth... for science Posted: 06 Aug 2012 01:24 AM PDT Supervillainesque move helps them learn about super-earthsA group of scientists have been practising blowing the Earth into smithereens.… |
| If Ultrabooks lasted longer, would YOU open your wallet? Posted: 06 Aug 2012 01:02 AM PDT LSI is betting its flashy controllers you wouldUnfruity Ultrabook users will be able to keep it up for longer with LSI's specially enhanced SandForce controllers.… |
| Watchdog sets rules on ad-slinging in vid-streaming services Posted: 06 Aug 2012 12:27 AM PDT What do you mean you have a pop-up blocker?Media companies that provide video-on-demand (VOD) services are responsible for ensuring compliance with VOD advertising rules when advertising appears as a direct result of a user choosing to view VOD programmes, the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has said.… |
| What's the point of a cloud storage gateway? Posted: 06 Aug 2012 12:02 AM PDT More and more vendors pushing them out, but not every cloud needs oneDeep Dive What exactly is a cloud storage gateway? We know what direct-access storage (DAS) is, and understand SANs and NAS, forms of networked storage. Cloud storage is, obviously, storage in the cloud. But when, where, how and why do we need a cloud gateway for storage?… |
| Success! Curiosity Mars lander arrives precisely on schedule Posted: 05 Aug 2012 11:19 PM PDT Perfection still possible – thanks, YanksCuriosity Mars mission | Pics NASA's Curiosity Mars lander settled down on the Red Planet as scheduled, no problems, thank you ma'am, nothing to worry about ... oh, what is it? a quarter of a billion miles from here or so?… |
| Xiaomi to go quad core with iPhone challenger Posted: 05 Aug 2012 11:14 PM PDT Chinese handset firm reportedly working with Qualcomm's APQ8064 chipMuch-hyped Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is set to launch the follow-up to its hugely popular iPhone rival the M1 next week, with rumours swirling that it will be the first device to run Qualcomm's powerful quad-core APQ8064 Snapdragon chip.… |
| Baidu bods arrested after deleting posts for dosh Posted: 05 Aug 2012 09:24 PM PDT Four sacked for doing a bit of freelance censorshipChinese web giant Baidu has been forced to sack four employees, three of whom were arrested by local police on suspicion of accepting bribes in return for deleting user-generated posts on one of the firm's sites.… |
| Curiosity landing live from NASA's JPL: How the drama unfolded Posted: 05 Aug 2012 09:18 PM PDT Constantly updated as it happenedCuriosity Mars mission El Reg is live from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, waiting to see if the Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity as it's better known, will land safely or crater the surface of Mars.… |
| Qantas' website goes all-but-titsup for an hour Posted: 05 Aug 2012 09:07 PM PDT What's the reason website's not flying?Australian flag carrier QANTAS' website went all-but-titsup for at least an hour on Monday afternoon.… |
| Climate change behind extreme weather, says NASA Posted: 05 Aug 2012 08:33 PM PDT 'Virtually no other explanation' for heatwaves and temperature risesJames Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has written a Washington Post op-ed in which he discusses a new climate study he says recent heat waves have "... virtually no explanation other than climate change"… |
| The Curiosity Show - Mars rover touches down at 5:31 GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2012 07:20 PM PDT Watch Mars rover Curiosity touching down from the comfort of a Reg storyNASA's biggest rover yet, Curiosity, is hours away from boldly going where no semi-autonomous vehicle has gone before.… |
| Oz regulator tells telly-makers to mind their language Posted: 05 Aug 2012 05:00 PM PDT Sony, LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Sharp won't say "WiFi Ready" any moreThe Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) has told the top five telly-makers to stop describing their products as "WiFi Ready" when a dongle is needed to connect them to a network.… |
| DARPA chips in on Terahertz research Posted: 05 Aug 2012 04:39 PM PDT Solid-state receiver hits 850 GHzThe next frontier for solid-state electronics, the Terahertz boundary, has come a little closer with DARPA announcing a receiver operating at 850 GHz.… |
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